With Tropical Storm Isaac forecast to reach hurricane
strength today, New Orleans residents said they are concerned about flooding
even with improvements to levees after a collapse during Katrina in 2005,
according to Businessweek..
“I hope the good Lord will see fit to bypass this situation
and let the levees and all this new protection stand up,” said Antoine Davis,
who was stocking up gas for a generator yesterday in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth
Ward.
Officials are expressing confidence the levee system will
hold. Isaac, which is closing oil and natural-gas production sites and
threatening Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, is set to strike the
Louisiana coast as early as tonight. Tomorrow is the seven-year anniversary of
Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,800 people and displaced 250,000.
Isaac’s center was about 80 miles (129 kilometers) south-
southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River with top winds of 70 miles per
hour, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 11 a.m. New York
time. That’s 4 mph less than hurricane strength…
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